After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

Basketball has been described by some as "poetry in motion." The world of high school basketball is shared through poetry itself in the latest collection by nationally-recognized poet Jack Ridl, ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews, Storey Publishing, 208 pages. $14.95. Credit: Courtesy This January, Amanda Gorman’s reading at the presidential inauguration ...

Like many I spent yesterday morning reading everything I could about the 49 people who were killed at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Reading about the grieving family members. Reading about the killer.

Jackie Bartley of the Hope College English faculty is the author of "Ordinary Time," a collection of poems published recently by Spire Press Inc. of New York City. The collection has been published as ...

The poem in this Hint I have offered before for the same reason, a gift for Christmas. But I believe it is definitely worth repeating. Christmas is a time that symbolizes hope. It is a religious ...

There’s no question: The pandemic and the nation’s racial reckoning has weighed heavily on students. Much has been written about how they’re struggling. But they’re also finding ways to cope with the ...